10 Legendary Rock Bands That Aren't In The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

10. Weird Al Yankovic

Starting this list with someone like Weird Al Yankovic almost feels a little bit silly. There may have been some questionable people that have gone into the Hall of Fame over the years, but does it really count to give it to someone who specializes in comedy over anything else? The Hall is about your contribution to rock and roll though, and it's impossible to think of a music scene that exists without Weird Al in it.

Compared to the kind of flash in the pan artists that come and go throughout history, Al's trademark goofy sense of humor is pretty much evergreen going through every single era of rock and roll, either riding the trends and making something extremely funny on Smells Like Nirvana or sprinkling in different pieces of polka into the mix like his different medleys of popular songs. Al was always more than just a copy and paste guy though, and some of his best songs are his style parodies of different acts, like Germs sounding like a real Nine Inch Nails song and Dare to Be Stupid even making Mark Mothersbaugh jealous because of just how much it resembled Devo.

Then again, the appeal of Weird Al getting into the Hall of Fame goes a lot further than just having a joke band among the greatest of all time. This was a man that went against the grain and made music on his own terms with humor, and that's about as rock and roll as it gets.